IoTH 2012 - Workshop on Internet of Things Enabling Technologies: Embracing the M2M Communications and Beyond

Internet of Things Enabling Technologies: Embracing the M2M Communications and Beyond

Organizers:
Angeliki Alexiou, University of Piraeus, Greece
Djelal Raouf, SAGEMCOM Energy & Telecom, France
Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Harold Liu, IBM Research, China

Abstract:
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a novel design paradigm rapidly gaining wide global attention from academia, industries, and governments. The fundamental concept is to emphasize the ubiquitous computing among global networked machines and physical objects, denoted as things, such as RFID tags, sensors, actuators, machine-to-machine (M2M) devices, mobile phones, etc. It covers a wide scope of technologies including wireless/wired sensing, networking, computing and control, which together build feasible complex cyber physical systems (CPS) to support diverse applications, including smart grid, e-health, intelligent transportation, and logistics, etc. The proposed International Workshop on the Internet of Things Enabling Technologies (IoT-ET), in conjunction with IEEE WCNC 2012 is a new event focusing on key enablers for IoT, especially M2M communications and networking, that aims at providing a forum that brings together researchers from academia, practitioners from industry, standardization bodies, and government to meet and exchange ideas on recent research work, point out the directions for future research, and seek collaboration opportunities on all aspects of the IoT enabling technologies. The goal of this workshop is to promote borderless discussions and identify suitable strategies and solutions to enable effective and efficient IoT system performance. We are looking for papers that present new techniques, introduce new methodologies, propose new research directions, or discuss strategies, including standardization and regulation for resolving open problems spanning all aspects of an IoT system, such as scalability, wide-area coverage, sustainability, energy-efficiency, spectral-efficiency, heterogeneity, cooperation, and security. The focus will cover system-level solutions like software/hardware architectures, protocol-level solutions, and device and service management solutions. Furthermore, application-oriented demos and prototypes are also highly encouraged.